[RTTY] RTTY operation in ARRL's Field Day exercise?

Tue, 25 Jun 2002 11:44:21 -0400

One of the assumptions about digital modes I've heard a lot is that the 
PSK guys run RTTY and vice versa.

I've found this to be untrue.  Some RTTY guys go PSK, but few PSK guys go 
RTTY.

So, if you ran RTTY to the exclusion of PSK in FD, you gave up a large 
number of  contacts.  There are an awful lot of 1D's on PSK that dont do 
RTTY.

I certainly wouldnt take a CW or SSB station off the air to do PSK, since 
the best you can hope for is probably about 25/hour, but at that rate it's 
probably almost a bottomless pit.  There was a lot of PSK on 15 20 and 40. 
 RTTY was common on 20, but almost none on other bands.

Ty K3MM (W3AO FD)

"Tom Moore" <wx4tm@mindspring.com>
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06/25/2002 07:24 AM

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        Subject:        Re: [RTTY] RTTY operation in ARRL's Field Day exercise?

Our Club has run 3A for the last 4 yrs, dedicating one of those radios to
RTTY.. each year, we kept hoping participation would be better.. but it
just hasn't happened.. Expecting participation to be down again this year,
and with only one CW operator and a group of new hams,  we dropped
our participation category to 2A.. then time shared between the CW,
RTTY and Phone stations.. it worked out pretty good getting about  350
CW Q's, 110 RTTY,  600 SSB and 350 GOTA.  We also notice a
tremendous number of 1D contacts  (home, commercial power)  which
seems to indicate a growing trend of more and more hams staying home
instead of getting out and supporting their local club. All, of which,
in my opinion, indicates a continuing decline in the interest, 
participation
and committment to Amateur Radio in general. I hope I'm wrong!

Tom Moore WX4TM
East Alabama ARC (Opelika AL)

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